Freight Train Collision: Unsafe Crossing Incident Involving Starship's Autonomous Food Delivery Robot
March 2, 2022
A Starship food delivery robot, deployed by Oregon State University, allegedly failed to safely cross a railroad track. The robot became stranded and was struck by an oncoming freight train, highlighting the importance of safe and secure AI in autonomous systems. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- oregon-state-university
- Alleged developer
- starship-technologies
- Alleged harmed parties
- oregon-state-university, freight-train-crew
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/176
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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